Blaine, Sam and the older kids were all in wolf form, playing and running around the yard, yipping excitedly and tackling each other. It was Isabella's second change, and she enjoyed it.
She was a little smaller than the others, but she could give as good as she got. Kurt had chuckled a few times when she had bowled Alex over. Blaine was jumping over all of them as they tried to catch him. Elizabeth's fur was as dark as her father's, Alex's fur was a light grey colour, and he had some dark marks down his legs and on his tail, Isabella was a light brown, with a white belly and a light coloured face.
They were all beautiful.
Elizabeth was 13 now, so she was a little bit bigger and lankier than her brother and sister, easily out running them with her longer legs. Sam was rolling around on the grass, and Isabella took the opportunity to jump on him, and he let her bite at his neck fur and lay on him.
Blaine had slowed to let Alex and Elizabeth catch him, and now they were trying and failing to tug him down onto the grass. Elizabeth was pulling on his neck fur and Alex had one ear within his teeth, but Blaine stood straight and refused to budge.
Kurt laughed as Sam got up to help them and he collided with Blaine and they all fell to the floor, growling playfully. Kurt laughed again, startling Grace a little as she slept, as Blaine lay on the grass with Sam sitting on him and Alex and Elizabeth bouncing over him.
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon, and nobody had anywhere they needed to be, which was why Blaine decided to have a romp in the yard with the kids. Kurt had to stay with the youngest 3, but Sam joined them excitedly.
Blaine managed to somehow squeeze himself out from under the others and ran around the grass again, stopping by the door to look at Kurt inside, and he waved at his husband before he bounded off again, with little Isabella trying to catch his tail.
"Dad, can we have a snack?" Justin asked from the floor, as he and Bradley looked up at Kurt.
"Ok," Kurt said as he sat up and placed Grace on the couch, placing a cushion behind her so she didn't roll off, "I'll make something. Can you go and tell daddy that it's lunch time?"
Justin and Bradley got up from the floor and went out into the yard, calling for Blaine, who came bounding over as Kurt chuckled and walked through to the kitchen.
Grace woke up as Blaine, Sam and the kids all changed back, excited chatter around the lounge disturbing her, and she groggily sat up rubbing her eyes. Blaine scooped her into his arms, as Kurt came through with sandwiches and drinks for everyone.
The doorbell rang as everyone was eating and Kurt got up to answer it, leaving Blaine to wipe the mess off of Grace's face, she had got her lunch all over her. He chuckled as he left, Blaine exclaiming "ew, sticky" as he wiped her mouth off of all the jelly.
There was a big silhouette outside the glass of the front door, and Kurt raised a curious eyebrow at who it could be, and he shrugged as he opened it.
The man standing at the door, grinned at him as his eyes and mouth opened wide in shock.
"Noah!" Kurt exclaimed loudly as he launched himself at his friend, who caught him easily and laughed as spun him around.
"Hey, Kurt," He said as he placed Kurt's feet back on the floor, and Kurt ushered him through.
"Sam!" Kurt called excitedly and Sam quickly appeared around the lounge door, and then he grinned broadly as he ran and collide with Puck, both of them falling to the floor.
Blaine and the kids had walked into the hall, wondering what was happening, and as soon as they saw their Uncle Puck, they all ran and jumped into the pile too. Kurt took Grace from Blaine, as he and Sam helped haul Puck up off of the floor, and Blaine grinned as he pulled Puck into a hug too.
"We missed you, man," Blaine said as Sam had his arms around Puck still, and Elizabeth clung onto Puck's side, "How was L.A?"
"Hot." He laughed and then greeted all of the kids around him one at a time, exclaiming how big they had all gotten, and kissed the top of Elizabeth's head as she started crying, "Aww, princess don't cry, it's ok."
"Are you back for good?" Kurt asked and Puck nodded as he looked at Grace, who was eyeing him curiously from where she sat on Kurt's hip.
"And who is this?" He said as he brought a hand up to take one of Grace's hands, and she smiled at him shyly, "Hey beautiful."
"This is Grace, say 'Hi' sweetie." Kurt said as he gave her a cue, and she waved, then hid her face into Kurt's neck, while everyone laughed.
Puck was dragged into the lounge by the kids, all of them talking to him excitedly about what had been happening, Grace stayed attached to Kurt or Blaine, she was still a little curious of the stranger that her brothers and sisters were fawning over. Elizabeth seemed ecstatic that her favourite uncle was back, and Alex was telling him about the baseball team he was part of at school, but he wanted to join the football team when he started high school and Puck high fived him for that.
Isabella had sat on Puck's lap and refused to budge for the rest of the afternoon, even when Kurt had started to make dinner, she was still sitting on him.
"So I hear that you had your change, how was it?" Puck asked her, and she grinned at him.
"It was brilliant, daddy had to help me and it hurt a little, but I did it again today, but it didn't hurt as much." She explained to him.
"Yeah we had Sam's help to tackle daddy to the floor," Elizabeth said with a big grin of her own, and Puck laughed, "will you change with us next time, Uncle Puck?"
"Of course I will."
Sam helped Kurt make dinner, and just as everyone had sat down to eat, Sebastian and Hunter walked in. Their initial reaction was to stop and stare, but then Sebastian yelled and launched himself at Puck, and Puck laughed as he spun him around like he did Kurt.
Sebastian also planted a kiss right on Puck's lips, and he screeched about it indignantly as he wiped it off, Sebastian laughing at him.
"Come on, man, really?" Puck said to him and he shrugged.
"Well next time, you know what you'll get when you leave." Sebastian drawled sarcastically, with a plastered on smirk, and Puck whacked him in the arm as he laughed.
Puck greeted Hunter with a hug too, and then everyone settled around the table.
Puck told everyone about his time out in L.A, he had been sleeping on Mercedes couch for the better part of the last year, and talking about how much time he had spent with his daughter.
"How is Beth?" Kurt asked.
"She's good, yeah, she just left for college, UCLA," Puck said with a proud smile on his face, "She was so excited when she got her letter of acceptance."
"Aww everyone is growing up too fast," Kurt said as watched his kids around the table chatting, "I wish we could sometimes just keep them little."
"Yeah me too." Puck agreed, before Sam asked a question about work, and the conversation split into work and kids.
Later that evening, Puck was the one that the kids wanted to read them to sleep, so he relented and followed everyone upstairs, throwing his bags into his room on the way. He helped Kurt tuck Justin and Bradley in, and after a story, he made his way through the rest, coming to a stop in Elizabeth's room.
"Hey, princess."
"Hi." She said from her vanity, sitting and brushing her hair in front of her mirror.
"So, do your parents still read to you, or are you too big for that now?" He asked as he sat on her bed and she scrambled to put her hairbrush away and climb under her covers.
"No, I like reading stories still."
"Well ok then." He said as he picked up a book from her side table, and opened it.
After Elizabeth had fallen asleep he kissed her forehead and made his way out quietly, spotting Blaine and Kurt coming out of the nursery, having just put Grace down.
"Hey." He said as they both smiled at him, before Blaine went ahead downstairs, "So another baby, how are you doing with that?"
"It's hard, but we're managing." Kurt said as they walked down the stairs together, "Bradley is at school now, so for the most part, it's just Grace at home, it's a little easier."
"They're all so grown up now," Puck said as he shook his head with a small smile on his lips, "I've missed a lot."
"Well, you're here now, that's all that matters to them." Kurt said giving him a kind smile and wrapping a hand around his, and Puck smiled back.
"Yeah."
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With Puck back in the house, it seemed like everyone's mood got a little brighter than it already was, the children all spent as much time with him as they could, just in case he disappeared again.
But Puck assured everyone he was here to stay now, he wasn't going anywhere for a long time.
Sebastian and Hunter started spending long weekends away together, and less time around the house. Kurt knew that eventually they would find their own place to go, being mates they wanted to be their own family, just like he and Blaine had.
Kurt couldn't begrudge them that, Sebastian had been with them for the past 15 nearly 16 years, and Kurt knew that it wouldn't last forever. Bradley's 5th birthday and Justin's 6th had come around very quickly, the boys wanting to spend their time having a Nerf gun war in the yard for Bradley's and then they had a big pool party with friends from school for Justin's.
Kurt couldn't believe how fast his children were growing up, and it was summertime already and getting close to Grace's 1st birthday.
"How is it that, in the last year, everything has changed so much?" Kurt asked Blaine as he watched the kids and Puck and Sam playing around in the yard, water guns and the paddling pool out, Grace had also warmed up to Puck, and allowed him to take her outside and play around in the sunshine.
"I know, everything is just crazy right now." Blaine replied as he laughed at Alex pelting Sam with a water bomb.
"I mean, I know with Grace coming along that everything has been mad around here, but things are changing so much right now," Kurt went on to explain, as he leaned his head on Blaine's shoulder, "We have a teenage daughter Blaine, are we really that old?"
"Kurt," Blaine said with a laugh, "We're not old, sweetheart."
"My back disagrees with that comment." Kurt said sarcastically before Blaine rolled them over and pinned him down on the couch.
"We, my love, are not old, come on we're only 38," Blaine said as he licked a stripe up the side of Kurt's neck, his husband chuckling and squirming underneath him, "Do I have to remind you?"
"No, you really don't," Kurt said as he pushed against Blaine's chest until they both sat up again, "Ok, so maybe we're not that old, but still, we're not young."
"And what defines young and old?"
"Age?"
"Nope, it's always to do with the way you feel, and I feel young," Kurt snorted as Blaine leaned back in to him, inspecting his face and Kurt raised an eyebrow at him, "and you look young."
"How young?" Kurt asked with a smirk, as he leaned away from Blaine, planting his thighs over Blaine's legs, and Blaine smirked back at him.
"Like I'm about to steal your virtue." Blaine said as he began running his hands over the top of Kurt's thighs, feeling the lean muscles shiver underneath his touch.
"You stole that long ago." Kurt said with a wave of his hand and Blaine laughed.
"I didn't steal anything, you gave it willingly."
"Well, that's true." Kurt shrugged, agreeing with a chuckle from Blaine.
Just as Blaine leaned in to kiss him senseless, Kurt's lips opening slightly in anticipation, Sebastian burst into the room, hair wild and eyes wide with a big happy grin on his face.
"Blaine, Kurt!" He said excitedly as he showed them his hand, which in the middle sat a ring, "Hunter proposed to me!"
"Oh my god!" Kurt said as he and Blaine disentangled their limbs and stood to congratulate him, "That's so great honey, congratulations!" He yelled excitedly as he wrapped his arms around Sebastian.
"Congrats man." Blaine said as he encased his friend in his arms, and Sebastian smile only broadened further.
"Thanks," Sebastian said with elation, and then his smile turned a little melancholic, and Kurt asked him what was the matter, "We have also been...looking at houses."
Kurt nodded, knowing what was coming, what he had been predicting for a while.
"Houses?" Blaine asked, and Kurt rolled his eyes at his oblivious husband.
"Yeah, we want to find our own place...for when we're married." Sebastian explained to Blaine, and Kurt watched as his husband's eyes widened.
"So, you're moving out?" Blaine asked with slightly sad looking eyes and Kurt put his hand on his back.
"Yes." Sebastian said in an equally sad tone, and Kurt pulled both of them into hug.
"Ok," Blaine said as they all squished together, "when though?"
"Not yet, we're taking our time." Sebastian told them, as he released them both.
"Ok."
Kurt left them to talk and walked outside with the others, taking Grace from Puck's grasp, and sitting down beside him on the grass.
"Hey, why the solemn face?" Puck asked as he looked over Kurt, concern growing on his features and Kurt just smiled at him sadly.
"Sebastian and Hunter are going to be moving out, I saw it coming."
"Wait, what?" Puck took a minute to think about the information and Kurt chuckled at him.
"They just got engaged." Kurt whispered and Puck's eyebrows shot upwards.
"Wow."
"Yeah," Kurt sighed, as he played around with Grace, she was plucking grass and handing it to him, "everything is changing again."
"It doesn't have to change, just because they won't be here." Puck exclaimed and Kurt turned to glance at him, "What, you don't think they'll be here for every birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year?"
"You're right," Kurt said with a big smile, "Just because they won't be here, doesn't mean we'll never see them."
"Exactly."
It happened sooner than anyone could have expected though, Sebastian and Hunter had found a place, on the other side of the city, and before everyone knew it, it was time to say goodbye.
It was early November, and Sebastian was going through everything and making sure that they hadn't forgotten anything, when Kurt approached him. The kids were still at school, Justin and Bradley had had to be pried off of them both this morning, they had cried and screamed and yelled as Blaine and Sam took them to school.
"Need any help?" He asked as Sebastian flitted around the room, trying to locate different things on his list.
"Nope, I'm good." Sebastian said without stopping and continued checking things off, Kurt smiled as he watched him.
"I'm gonna miss you, you know."
Sebastian paused then and looked up, and Kurt finally saw why Sebastian had refused help to begin with, he had been crying. His eyes were red rimmed and wet, and his cheeks were stained with dried tears, and he stopped and stood straight, wiping them onto his sleeve before throwing Kurt an awkward smile.
"I'll miss you too," He said and Kurt rushed to take him into his arms, "A lot."
"I know," Kurt whispered into his shoulder as they held each other tightly, "It's going to be weird here without you."
"Yeah, all your lives will be so empty without me." Sebastian said sarcastically, covering up the hurt and Kurt laughed with him, before they both burst into tears and sobbed against each other.
"Hey." came a quiet voice from the door, and Kurt released Sebastian so that Blaine could say goodbye, and he gave Sebastian a lingering kiss on the cheek before smiling one last time and backing out of the room.
Sebastian and Blaine just stared at each other awkwardly for a while, until Sebastian sighed and turned to sit down on the bed.
Blaine smiled crookedly and sat next to him.
"You realise we've spent the last 22 years together." Blaine said and Sebastian nodded with a hum.
"And at least 20 of those living together."
"Yeah."
Sebastian snagged Blaine's hand as the tears came back and he tried to choke back the sobs, but as Blaine let out his own shuddering breath sebastian lost and he cried loudly.
Blaine grabbed him roughly into his arms, puuling him against his chest, burying their faces against each others' necks, and clinging on as they sobbed.
"I love you, Blaine..."
"I love you too, Sebastian," He replied as he tried to blink the tears away. "I am really going to miss you."
"Me too."
Blaine nodded and then they released each other as they wiped their wet faces, sniffing and shaking their heads. Blaine laughed at him and then Sebastian snorted and they were both cackling with laughter.
They both stood up from the bed and threw their arms around eachother again, swaying from side to side a little.
"Blaine...there has always been something that I wanted to know," Sebastian said as he released his friend but still held him at arms length and Blaine tilted his head, "can I try something quickly?"
"Sure." Blaine said as he gave his best friend and huge smile and Sebastian returned it.
"Can you close your eyes?" He asked with a nervous little grin and Blaine raised a curious eyebrow before he shut his eyes, "I hope Kurt doesn't kick my ass for this."
"For wha-mmph."
Blaine's question was cut off as Sebastian's lips hit his, and Blaine raised an eyebrow, but his eyes remained shut as he let Sebastian kiss him.
After about 10 seconds Blaine decided to kiss back, moving their lips against each other slowly, both of their cheeks still wet from crying.
Sebastian pulled away slowly, breathing out a sigh and leaning his forehead on Blaine's, before laughing.
"Nope, didn't do a thing for me Anderson." He quipped and Blaine chuckled with him as their eyes met.
"Fuck you Smythe." Blaine said as he pushed away from him, smacking him on the chest.
"I think I'll leave that to Kurt." Sebastian said with a wink and a smirk, and Blaine laughed again, "But seriously, I am gonna miss you."
"Yeah me too." Blaine responded adding a smile, "Thanksgiving is in a couple of weeks and you better be there."
"We will be."
"Good...listen I've got to go to work now, but let us know when you're settled and we'll stop by." Blaine said and Sebastian nodded with a grin.
"Ok."
"Right, well I'll see you later then." With one last hug, they backed away from each other and Blaine turned to leave the room as Sebastian turned back to his checklist.
As Blaine walked out of the room, Kurt was standing outside the door, leaning against the wall, and when Blaine stepped out, his eyes shot up to him, as a small smile appeared on his face. Blaine winced a little.
"Kurt I-"
"I know, it's ok," Kurt cut him off, placing his hands on Blaine's cheeks, and placing his own kiss against his lips, "He has always wondered."
"Did you hear?" Blaine asked as he raised an eyebrow and Kurt shook his head with a small secretive grin.
"I didn't have too, he told me years ago." He told Blaine, and his husband's mouth dropped open in shock.
"Really?"
"Don't look so surprised, he's your best friend...he's also a gay man, can you really blame him?" Kurt said with a smirk and Blaine smiled and tugged him closer.
"I guess not," He said placing his own lingering kiss on his mate's lips, "I have to go to work though."
"I know, go." Kurt nodded and Blaine kissed him again quickly before turning to the stairs, "I love you."
"I love you too." He heard as the front door opened and close, and he smiled.
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With Sebastian and Hunter not around, the house dynamics seemed to go a little haywire, Puck took Beta position again, but it was different because no-one really fought him for it, and it felt like it was a moot point.
Things settled down just before Thanksgiving, and they had a surprise visit the day before. Kurt had opened the door, with Grace on his hip, to meet the delighted faces of his parents.
"Dad!" He exclaimed as Carole took Grace from his arms and hugged her close, while his dad pulled him into his own arms, "What are you doing here?"
"What? Your old man not invited to Thanksgiving anymore," Burt teased him as he walked inside, Carole giggling as she followed. "So where are my favourite kids!"
His dad called out pretty loudly, and there was thunderous footsteps from all over the house, Elizabeth and Alex flying down the stairs, and Isabella, Justin and Bradley running in from the lounge.
"There they are!" he exclaimed loudly as they all shouted "Grandpa!" at the same time.
"Burt?!" Blaine yelled with a smile as he followed behind the little ones, and then Sam and Puck came into view.
"Puckerman! you're back huh?" Burt said as his grandchildren surrounded him, and leaned over to grasp Puck's hand.
"Yep, I'm back!"
"How's the daughter?"
"Gone to college now."
"Already, wow that makes me feel old now." He said and everyone chuckled, while there was another knock on the door, and Kurt pulled it open again.
"Here comes the fun!" Sebastian said loudly and Justin and Bradley ran to greet him and Hunter, the latter picking them both up underneath his arms and spinning them around, before passing them off to his fiancé, who laughed.
The chatter was explosive, and the noise thunderous, the laughter was loud, and the place was a mess when everyone had settled down after dinner, but Kurt loved it. It was family, and pack, and home and the children were all tuckered out, with sleepy smiles on their faces as they listened to Burt tell them stories from when Kurt was young.
Sebastian and Hunter were sitting with Justin and Bradley dozing on their laps, running their fingers through the boys' hair, Elizabeth was sitting on Puck's lap, Grace sat with Carole, fallen asleep already, Alex was laying on the mat on the floor with Sam and Isabella sat with Blaine.
Burt was telling them all about the time Kurt first tried to make Thanksgiving dinner by himself, and everything was either burnt or very undercooked, but he had worked so hard on it that Burt had to eat it with a smile on his face, and then they both spent the night throwing up.
Kurt rolled his eyes as everyone laughed.
"Yeah, yeah, let's not forget who can burn water," He pointed at Blaine, "and who has never made anything other than toast before," pointed at Puck, "and by the way I was 13, I got better."
"You did get better, and your meals are awesome, baby." Blaine whispered and kissed his cheek and Puck laughed at Anderson sucking up for something later, and Sebastian and Hunter literally started crying with laughter as Blaine groaned.
Kurt glared at him, through his blush, but Puck kept laughing at them until he spotted Burt's glare out of the corner of his eye.
Blaine shook off his blush and stood with Isabella in his arms, claiming that the kids needed to go to bed, so everyone who had one of them, picked them up and followed Blaine upstairs. Carole being the last one, carrying Grace carefully in her arms, which just left Sam, Kurt and Burt sitting in the lounge.
Sam got up to go to the toilet, and Burt turned to Kurt.
"Pretty great family you got here, kiddo." He said and Kurt nodded and smiled in agreement, "I mean it, Kurt, the kids are amazing, and Blaine? well...what can I say? Seems like he was the perfect match for you huh?"
"Yeah, he's pretty special." Kurt sighed a little dreamily, and Burt laughed.
"Looking at your life now, your own family, growing up, makes me feel old," Burt said as he eyed Kurt, and Kurt shook his head incredulously with a disbelieving laugh, "well I am old."
"You're 63, dad." Kurt sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, and that's old." Burt laughed.
"It's not that old."
"I'm just trying to say, I'm proud of you." Burt said as he smiled widely at Kurt, and Kurt smiled back, "Me and Carole-"
"Carole and I." Kurt corrected with a smirk, but Burt ignored him.
"-we are so proud of the man you've become, I didn't think we would get to this point sometimes, with everything we've all been through...but you...you're strong, and great, and an unmoving force. I'm proud that I'm the one who raised you."
Kurt was about to respond, when Carole came in the doorway, exclaiming how she was amazed that Grace went down to sleep right away, and Kurt laughed. And as Carole sat down to talk to Burt, Blaine caught Kurt's attention over their heads and gestured for him to come out into the hall.
"Looks like Sebastian and Hunter are going, I gotta go say goodbye." Kurt said as he stood, and Burt and Carole both shouted their own goodbyes, and Sebastian poked his head back around the doorway to bid them a goodnight too.
"Don't be strangers, we expect visits ok, not just special occasions." Kurt said as he embraced Hunter first, while Blaine hugged Sebastian, and then they switched.
"Oh you can count on us, say every Friday for your amazing Chicken Alfredo?" Hunter said and Kurt rolled his eyes and shooed them out of the door, and he and Blaine watched them get into their car to go home.
"I hope they're happy out there." Blaine said as Kurt closed the door behind them.
"I'm sure they will be, honey," Kurt replied with a smile, "Besides, where else are their children supposed to grow up?"
Blaine nodded along and then paused.
"Children, what?"
"Oh Blaine, seriously," Kurt raised an eyebrow at his husband, "I swear you go through phases of smart," Blaine pouted with a glare, "of course they want to start a family, it's not going to just be them in that house forever, you know."
"But Sebastian hasn't even said anything."
"You've seen how they are with Justin and Bradley," Kurt stopped him with a hand on his arm, and turned Blaine to face him, "They want their own, I can see it in their eyes, it's exactly how we looked on our honeymoon when we decided to try."
"Mmm." Blaine smiled up at Kurt, "you still remember that huh?"
"Like it was yesterday." Kurt said with a smirk on his face and Blaine crept a little closer, backing Kurt up against the wall.
"We could reenact that first one?" Blaine said as he leaned into him, and Kurt sucked in a breath as Blaine's hard length pushed against his thigh.
"What are you doing?!"
Burt's voice made both of them jump, and they collided foreheads, making each other groan in pain.
"Dad." Kurt moaned from underneath his palm and Burt laughed from the doorway.
"Well, no more children are being made in front of my eyes." He laughed as he walked back to the lounge, leaving Kurt and Blaine with their mouths hanging open.
"I swear that man is always one step ahead of me whenever I try to initiate something," Blaine said as he frowned whilst thinking, Kurt was still rubbing his sore forehead, "Maybe he waits for the right moment, and then pounces to make it look like bad timing."
"Of course he does it on purpose, haven't you figured it out by now? We've been married for 14 years," Kurt said a little irritated and thanks to Blaine a little frustrated, "Come on, let's not give him another excuse to come out here."
Blaine just shook his head and followed him back into the lounge.